09/09/2008 02:13. TURIN September 8, 2008: The latest member of the Lancia family has been awarded five prestigious Euro NCAP stars, positioning itself at the top of the safety league tables. This recognition confirms the special attention paid by Fiat Group Automobiles to all aspects of driver and passenger protection.

To achieve this important result, the designers studied all possible types of accident: frontal and side impacts, overturning and nose-to-tail crashes. Consideration was also made for the different speeds at which collisions can take place, the different types of obstacles and the protection of occupants with greatly differing physical characteristics. Altogether, 15,000 hours of calculations, 80 crash tests,150 HyGe sled simulations and 100 tests on components and subsystems were carried... // Autochannel

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First News Article: PaddockTalk, 06/09/2008 05:53